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UNINA9911104969203321 |
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Bronner Yigal |
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Extreme poetry : the South Asian movement of simultaneous narration / / Yigal Bronner |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2010 |
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9786612872372 |
9781282872370 |
1282872370 |
9780231525299 |
023152529X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 pages) |
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Collana |
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South Asia across the disciplines |
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Sanskrit poetry - History and criticism |
Puns and punning in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Sanskrit Transliteration -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTING WITH ŚLESA IN SUBANDHU'S PROSE LAB -- 3. THE DISGUISE OF LANGUAGE -- 4. AIMING AT TWO TARGETS -- 5. BRINGING THE GANGES TO THE OCEAN -- 6. ŚLESA AS READING PRACTICE -- 7. THEORIES OF ŚLESA IN SANSKRIT POETICS -- 8. TOWARD A THEORY OF ŚLEŞA -- Appendix 1: Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Sanskrit -- Appendix 2: Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Telugu -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, simultaneously.Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tamil, and other artistic media, such as sculpture. Scholars have long dismissed simultaneous narration as a |
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mere curiosity, if not a sign of cultural decline in medieval India. Yet Yigal Bronner's Extreme Poetry effectively negates this position, proving that, far from being a meaningless pastime, this intricate, "bitextual" technique both transcended and reinvented Sanskrit literary expression.The poems of simultaneous narration teased and estranged existing convention and showcased the interrelations between the tradition's foundational texts. By focusing on these achievements and their reverberations through time, Bronner rewrites the history of Sanskrit literature and its aesthetic goals. He also expands on contemporary theories of intertextuality, which have been largely confined to Western texts and practices. |
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UNINA9911094174803321 |
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Autore |
Hansen Carl J. |
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Titolo |
Stellar Interiors : Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution / / by Carl J. Hansen, Steven D Kawaler |
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New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1994 |
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[1st ed. 1994.] |
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1 online resource (XIV, 446 p.) |
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, , 2196-9698 |
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Astronomy |
Astrophysics |
Geophysics |
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1 Preliminaries -- 1.1 Hydrostatic Equilibrium -- 1.2 An Energy Principle -- 1.3 The Virial Theorem and Its Applications -- 1.4 The Constant-Density Model -- 1.5 Energy Generation and Transport -- 1.6 Stellar Dimensional Analysis -- 1.7 Evolutionary Lifetimes on the Main Sequence -- 1.8 Exercises -- 1.9 References and Suggested Readings -- 2 An Overview of Stellar Evolution -- 2.1 Pre-Main Sequence |
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Evolution -- 2.2 Single Stars On and Near the Main Sequence -- 2.3 Evolution of Single Stars Off the Main Sequence -- 2.4 Late Stages of Evolution -- 2.5 Evolution in Close Binary Systems -- 2.6 Special Kinds of Stars -- 2.7 Concluding Remarks -- 2.8 Exercises -- 2.9 References and Suggested Readings -- 3 Equations of State -- 3.1 Distribution Functions -- 3.2 Blackbody Radiation -- 3.3 Ideal Monatomic Gas -- 3.4 The Saha Equation -- 3.5 Fermi-Dirac Equations of State -- 3.6 “Almost Perfect” Equations of State -- 3.7 Adiabatic Exponents and Other Derivatives -- 3.8 Exercises -- 3.9 References and Suggested Readings -- 4 Radiative and Conductive Heat Transfer -- 4.1 Radiative Transfer -- 4.2 The Diffusion Equation -- 4.3 A Brief Diversion into “?’s” -- 4.4 Radiative Opacity Sources -- 4.5 Heat Transfer by Conduction -- 4.6 Tabulated Opacities -- 4.7 References and Suggested Readings -- 5 Heat Transfer by Convection -- 5.1 The Mixing Length Theory -- 5.2 Variations on the MLT -- 5.3 References and Suggested Readings -- 6 Stellar Energy Sources -- 6.1 Gravitational Energy Sources -- 6.2 Thermonuclear Energy Sources -- 6.3 The Proton-Proton Chains -- 6.4 The Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycles -- 6.5 Helium-Burning Reactions -- 6.6 Carbon, Neon, and Oxygen Burning -- 6.7 Silicon “Burning” -- 6.8 Neutrino Emission Mechanisms -- 6.9 Exercises -- 6.10 References and Suggested Readings -- 7 Stellar Modeling -- 7.1 TheEquations of Stellar Structure -- 7.2 Polytropic Equations of State and Polytropes -- 7.3 The Approach to Real Models -- 7.4 References and Suggested Readings -- 8 Structure and Evolution of the Sun -- 8.1 The Sun as the Prototype Star -- 8.2 From the ZAMS to the Present -- 8.3 The Solar Neutrino “Problem” -- 8.4 The Role of Rotation in Evolution -- 8.5 References and Suggested Readings -- 9 Structure and Evolution of White Dwarfs -- 9.1 Observed Properties of White Dwarfs -- 9.2 White Dwarf Evolution -- 9.3 The Magnetic White Dwarfs -- 9.4 References and Suggested Readings -- 10 Asteroseismology -- 10.1 Adiabatic Radial Pulsations -- 10.2 Nonadiabatic Radial Motions -- 10.3 An Introduction to Nonradial Oscillations -- 10.4 Helioseismology -- 10.5 Asteroseismology of White Dwarfs -- 10.6 References and Suggested Readings -- A Glossary -- B Physical and Astronomical Constants -- C Sample Computer Codes -- C.1 The ZAMS Model Builder -- C.2 Adiabatic Pulsation Code. |
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That trees should have been cut down to provide paper for this book was an ecological afIront. From a book review. - Anthony Blond (in the Spectator, 1983) The first modern text on our subject, Structure and Evolution of the Stars, was published over thirty years ago. In it, Martin Schwarzschild described numerical experiments that successfully reproduced most of the observed properties of the majority of stars seen in the sky. He also set the standard for a lucid description of the physics of stellar interiors. Ten years later, in 1968, John P. Cox's tw~volume monograph Principles of Stellar Structure appeared, as did the more specialized text Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nuc1eosynthesis by Donald D. Clayton-and what a difference ten years had made. The field had matured into the basic form that it remains today. The past twenty-plus years have seen this branch of astrophysics flourish and develop into a fundamental pillar of modern astrophysics that addresses an enormous variety of phenomena. In view of this it might seem foolish to offer another text of finite length and expect it to cover any more than a fraction of what should be discussed to make it a thorough and self-contained reference. Well, it doesn't. Our specific aim is to introduce only the fundamentals of stellar astrophysics. You will find little reference here to black holes, millisecond pulsars, and other "sexy" objects. |
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UNINA9911107331003321 |
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Autore |
Perkin Harold James |
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Titolo |
The Third Revolution : professional elites in the modern world / / Harold Perkin |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
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1-134-76394-8 |
0-203-28206-X |
1-134-76395-6 |
1-280-05735-1 |
0-203-43935-X |
9780203439357 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Professions - History |
Professions - Sociological aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-245) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; THE THIRD SOCIAL REVOLUTION; THE UNITED STATES: A FREE MARKET FOR CORPORATIONS; BRITAIN: KEYSTONE OF THE ARCH; FRANCE: A PLANNED MERITOCRACY; GERMANY: TWO VERSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY; SOVIET RUSSIA: GULLIVER'S GIANT; JAPAN: A FLOATING WORLD; TOWARDS A GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY; EPILOGUE: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
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Perkin's ambitious new book examines the leading professional societies since World War II: those in the free market economies and also the collapsed command economies of Eastern Europe. He warns of the greed and corruption of their elites. |
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